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Scott Young - Ultralearning

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is It Possible to Focus on Twitter All the Time?

Twitter is like the variable reinforcement schedule. It's the skinner box that gives you the rewards intermittently, and so you're willing to press it constantly all the time. And so if you're choosing between twitter and reading this hard book, then like, the motivational gradient it's going to be to go on twitter all the time,. So when we're talking about focus there, is that a cogmtive capacity, or is that just like, your affect of ability to choose this harder thing? I think hit's probably true. Is witis.

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